Donovan 💻 Grant

University of the Arts London

Imparting my knowledge in business analysis, I dispense job focused training and coaching, enabling student progression, advancing experience and ensuring wellbeing. As a business coach, I manage numerous training programmes, providing instruction and coordinating activities. Handling stakeholder communications, I partner with senior management to formulate bespoke plans. Orchestrating and facilitating groups and one to one workshops, analysing training results and testing knowledge to confirm understanding.

Here are some of the highlights of my achievements:

• Coordinating efforts with Business Analyst Managers, facilitating workshops; improving capabilities throughout business analysis teams.
• Identifying skills gaps presenting training and career coaching; enhancing careers of junior and senior staff.
• Forming strong and mutually beneficial relationships with internal and external stakeholders, collaborating with business
teams to share ideas and best practice; troubleshooting and resolving issues.
• Delivering Business Analysis on the university’s digital business transformation programme; confirming value and usability are delivered across change management plans.

Lead Business Analyst & Coach

Metadata Training

One-on-One Mentoring: Providing regular, personalised one-on-one coaching sessions to apprentices, ensuring the seamless integration of training course knowledge into practical workplace applications.

Bridging Theory and Practice: Playing a pivotal role in bridging the gap between theoretical learning and real-world workplace practices, ensuring that apprentices can effectively apply their skills.

Tailored Learning: Customising the learning process to align with the specific needs of both the employer and apprentices, ensuring that the training directly addresses the challenges faced in the workplace.

Alignment with Real-World Problems: Ensuring that apprentice learning aligns with the real problems they encounter in their day-to-day work, fostering practical problem-solving abilities.

Guiding the Learning Journey: Guiding mentees throughout their learning journey, helping them develop technical proficiency, and fostering their confidence.

Practical Skill Development: Enabling the transformation of theoretical knowledge into practical, hands-on skills, empowering apprentices to excel in their roles.

Coaching Through Challenges: Providing support and coaching to apprentices during setbacks and challenges, helping them navigate and overcome obstacles in their professional development.

Business Analyst Mentor

Heroic Public Benefit Corporation

Heroic is a dynamic platform that unites ancient wisdom, modern science, and world-class, scientifically validated tools to drive personal growth. 

In my role as a Heroic Performance Coach, I offer customised one-on-one coaching to help you unlock your fullest heroic potential and spark transformative change—one individual at a time. 

If you’re inspired, explore more at heroic.us or drop me a DM.

Heroic Performance Coach

London Metropolitan University

As a senior business analyst and coach, I executed business analysis, delivering group workshops and developing process improvements. A major part of my role, was to plan projects, share progress and evaluate results.

Here are some of the highlights of my achievements:

• Spearheaded Lecture Recording Project as part of virtual learning programme; delivered change, achieved results on time and within budget.
• Conceptualised and integrated continuous improvement initiatives, including focused project meetings; provided focused feedback and progress updates to ensure future business transformation.

Senior Business Analyst & Coach

HSBC Commercial Banking

Working with HSBC, I led requirements gathering workshops and obtained feedback from stakeholders to create business requirements documents and support the delivery of strategic initiatives and key projects.

Here are some of the highlights of my achievements:

• Motivated and coached team members; increased knowledge and confidence in use of systems, business analysis, project management and change management.
• Integrated continuous improvement initiatives; triggered improvements in reporting and strategic planning.

Visa Europe

In my role with Visa Europe, I assessed business conditions, considered project feasibility, identified areas for improvement and outlines solutions to deliver digital transformation. Partnering with internal and US stakeholders, I delivered global projects and met standards.

Here are some of the highlights of my achievements:

• Managed digital change projects; designed and instituted more transparent and secure payment options for members and customers.
• Played a pivotal role as an agile team member across three countries, mapped and documented business processes; originated improvement initiatives to achieve project deliverables.
• Contributed significantly to the launch of the new Visa Apprentice programme; delivered training and career coaching, marked assignments, tested knowledge and offered mentoring to develop a diverse range of IT professionals.

A decision maker and motivational communicator, a coordinator of key performance goals, I have coached individuals and teams to achieve digital change objectives. 

Engaging in key training activities, I am passionate about providing group and individual coaching to prepare business professionals for future business transformation. I also greatly relish new and refreshing challenges, which give me great satisfaction when I resolve issues.

A career performance coach, I deliver bootcamps providing exclusive coaching for technology professionals, enabling them to become more influential and impactful.

Presenting internal and private coaching for technology leaders and managers, I offer strategic support to enable organisational change. I am regularly called upon to deliver high performance coaching and training in value driven business analysis.

I guide business analysts and Technology professionals to move their mindset and businesses from their current position to where they want to be in the future.

As a business transformational coach and business analyst, I excel while leading challenging digital development projects and change initiatives to advance learning and improve business processes. I am a high achiever and impacting leader, with a talent for refining and advancing knowledge in business analysis, project delivery and change management within major organisations, creating and developing people and strategy to improve engagement.

As an imaginative and analytical individual, I can easily visualise the wider business, allowing me to steer change and strategic advancement to achieve results.

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𝘗𝘴. 𝘐𝘧 𝘐 𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘢 𝘳𝘦𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘢 𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘦, 𝘪𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘴𝘯’𝘵 𝘢𝘶𝘵𝘰𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥. 𝘚𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘮𝘦 𝘤𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘬 𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘤𝘵. 𝘐 𝘩𝘰𝘱𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶’𝘭𝘭 𝘢𝘤𝘤𝘦𝘱𝘵! :)

Linguarama

As a Business English Trainer, I work with professionals across a wide range of sectors like IT, automotive, HR, banking and marketing to improve their workplace communication skills. My goal is to support trainees in taking their English to the next level so they can speak more confidently, communicate more effectively and perform better in their roles. I design and deliver tailored sessions focused on real-world situations such as meetings, presentations and small talk, always adapting to their specific needs and industry context.

Business English Trainer

Business English Communication Coach for IT Professionals

Self Employed

I help motivated Japanese professionals improve their job performance and secure future career opportunities by advancing their communication skills.

Business English Coach for Japanese Speaking Professionals

Engoo

I assist committed professionals, mostly from Japan, Korea and Taiwan, improve their English communication skills.

English Tutor

Accounting and Taxation Centre

Roles included day-to-day accounting for clients, making trial balance adjustments, bank reconciliations, MIS reporting and preparation and analysis of financial statements.

Finance Executive

AITC (Academy of IT and Civil Service)

Assisting accountants with daily entries and adjustments, adjusting trial balance, bank reconciliations, assisting the Finance Manager with MIS reporting and preparation and analysis of financial statements.

Freelance

Teaching basic accounting to college students.

Private Tutor

Genesis Learning Initiatives Pvt. Ltd.

Transcribing or editing medical reports for American hospitals from audio files for insurance purposes.

Medical Transcriptionist/Editor

Accentia Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

Transcribing, editing or proofing medical records for American hospitals from given audio files before expiration time.

Medical Editor/Proofer

Helping Motivated IT Professionals to Take Advantage of Advanced English Communication Skills to Improve Their Job Performance| Business English Communication Coach | Entrepreneur

🦸‍♂️I'm an English Communication Coach, Entrepreneur and Gaming Enthusiast.

🤝I am a former finance professional striving to boost the communication skills of IT professionals and elevate their job performance. 

💪🏼Over the years, I have been guiding hundreds of students to improve the way they expressed themselves in a professional, personal or academic environment.

If you're an IT professional, you need to take action when

🚨Your English is limiting your job performance

🚨You feel embarrassed because your clients/coworkers can't understand you when you speak in English 

🚨You feel anxious when you have to speak in English in meetings or while writing business emails

🚨You feel insecure about using business English idioms, expressions, and phrases to talk freely


What scares you most is that you know, if you don’t change, you will get stuck with your current position and miss future career opportunities. You will not be able to best support your family or grow yourself to the next level. 

You understand that if you don't change, 

🙁You may not achieve your career goals or even support your family the best way


With my help,

🎯You can take your English communication to the next level

🎯Your coworkers and clients will understand you clearly

🎯You'll be able to strengthen your business English vocabulary and express yourself better

🎯You'll feel positive when you have to participate in meetings or write business emails in English


My 10-week program is designed exclusively for professionals!

Using my program, 

⭐You will optimise your job performance and take hold of future career opportunities

⭐You will be able to support your family better and become a better version of yourself

✏Message me today to know more and take the first step towards achieving your dreams!

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